scars

Mendiola chose to design swimwear as a way to change the narrative surrounding societal beauty standards and physical differences.

Matt talks about how to deal with being stared at. 

[CN: cutting, dissociation, auditory hallucinations] I struggle with the need to have physical, visible proof of my inner world. That’s when I realized tattoos can replace my scars. I can reinterpret what my scars stand for and transform them into something beautiful, something worth remembering.

To the tattoo artist, I was a flesh canvas that she could transform into something beautiful.

A father began a petition asking Dove to fess up to their Photoshopping. Request? Denied.